Photo Source: Daily Mail.

Daily Mail: Yummy! iPhone food covers that will make you go mmmmmmm

iPhone users bored with regular phone cases are switching to the iMeshi covers in droves, just for how realistic and wacky they look.
The covers are themed around Japanese-style cuisine and the plastic food samples that local restaurants keep in [...]

Photo Source: Washington Post.

Washington Post: In Japan, baseball brings normalcy

Before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, at least, Minamisanriku’s Shizugawa High School baseball team had a clear goal: making it to Japan’s version of March Madness — a nationwide single-elimination tournament that, for a few weeks every summer, becomes the focus of this [...]

Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV. Photo Source: Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street Journal: New Car Features: Rice Cookers and Microwaves

“Today more and more people are looking to the EV both as a means to address environmental issues and also to address the pressures on the demand and supply of energy,” said the company in a released statement [...]

The “Sense-Roid”. Photo Source: ABC Australia.

ABC Australia: Japan’s ‘Sense-Roid’ replicates human hug

“Many people initially feel surprised and uncomfortable about the unusual experience, but they gradually get accustomed to it until they feel comfortable and pleasant,”

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Sydney Morning Herald: The last thing a suffering Japan needs is yet another change of prime minister

Three months [...]

Japan Times: Computerized composite joins AKB48 lineup

Confectionery company Ezaki Glico Co., which features the character named Aimi Eguchi along with a few other AKB48 members in the commercial for its Ice no Mi (Fruit of Ice) product, confirmed Monday that she is a composite image of six members of the group.

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ABC News: Magnitude-6.7 [...]

The Japan Times had an editorial yesterday, which began with the following sentence:

Prime Minister Naoto Kan faced more pressure Tuesday from his own ruling party as well as the opposition parties to resign amid the pressing national tasks of bringing the nuclear crisis under control and rebuilding the Tohoku region struck by the March [...]

With the resignation of Hatoyama Yukio last week, Kan Naoto became the fifth man to hold the post of Japanese Prime Minister since September 2006. Since this time, Abe Shinzo (1 year), Fukuda Yasuo (1 year), Aso Taro (1 year), and Hatoyama Yukio (8.5 months) have all failed to govern beyond their first anniversary… Indeed, [...]

A new Yomiuri poll conducted over the weekend had support for the Hatoyama Cabinet down 4 points in the last month, to 59%. This is still a relatively high level of support for a Japanese Prime Minister and his Cabinet, but support has been falling steadily since the election a few [...]